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[Epic 4G General] Art2Fly:
I'll check my sd card if she mightve hit the power button, slid the lockscreen, and hit the camera button, focused, and shot a picture with her *****... but i highly doubt it guys.
[Epic 4G General] warrenis1234:
i was venting pretty heavily, talking with my hands..... it slipped and missiled against a living room wall and absolutely shattered

well... it looked like it shattered, i don't use a case or a screenguard, batt cover popped out and batt went clear across the room

picked it up, reassembled, looks like new
[Epic 4G General] Custodian:
Dry rice? I may have to try this!
[Epic 4G General] BigOnes69:
Just dont use the rice and the GF at the same time.
[Epic 4G General] Custodian:
Lmao!! Man you guys have me rollin this morntin
[Epic 4G General] dwallersv:
Dry rice is a good final step.

If you're phone gets wet like this, the following steps will minimize damage:

remove battery immediately. Like before you even get out of the pool. THIS is probably THE most important step.

as quickly as possibly before anything dries out, flush/rinse thoroughly with distilled water (not mineral water -- distilled water).

dry as thoroughly as possible with high pressure compressed air. If all you can do is blow hard on/through it, blow 'til you pass out :D

Do the rice trick.

Sent from my mind using telepathitalk
[Epic 4G General] BigOnes69:
Compressed air on the gf might not work. Blowing will help.
[Epic 4G General] corythug:
Any watermarks or dimmness on the LCD?
[Epic 4G General] Shinydude100:
I threw mine at the tip of Mount Everest. Still in one piece when I found it on my climb down.

Epic4g SchizioPunk's Epic Experience 2.1 Eclair -> Odin to EC05. Rooted. Bloatware Removed. Enjoying my Customized Stock Experience.
[Epic 4G General] JohnCorleone:
No water damage?? Lol
[Epic 4G General] infamousteeboy:
I was amazed at this story..

and slightly jealous lol

No point in tryna lie lol

Sent from my Vanilla Ice Cream evO²·³·³
[Epic 4G General] Shinydude100:
Nope. And then I woke up and it was lying next to me, fully charged, and ready to be devoured. =)

Epic4g SchizioPunk's Epic Experience 2.1 Eclair -> Odin to EC05. Rooted. Bloatware Removed. Enjoying my Customized Stock Experience.
[Epic 4G General] CrfEpic4g:
Not one bit its like it was made to swim lol
[Epic 4G General] corythug:
welp, at least now i i know i can take underwater pictures if need be. hah.
[Epic 4G General] bondosho:
If you've been on the ride Shipwreck Rapids at Sea World in San Diego, you'll know there is a waterfall that you go under towards the end. Your Epic will survive just fine. You however, will be pissed because no one warned you about it.
[Epic 4G General] zfxp:
That's hilarious!
[Epic 4G General] CrfEpic4g:
So im having suckish battery life on the same rom i was on before the water incident could water make it suck? im assuming so just want to check before i go slap some cash for a battery
[Epic 4G General] corythug:
Id imagine it could damage the battery. You could try calibrating it, although I always kinda felt that was a placebo fix.
[Epic 4G General] spartasr:
I'm sorry but in terms of durability you can't beat a Nokia.
[Epic 4G General] DroidApprentice:
If that is indeed still true I'd then say "Who is Nokia?" ;-)
[Epic 4G General] GrimReaper24:
Hope you didn't do a number 2 lmao I would throw the phone out or flush it.
[Epic 4G General] spartasr:
True...but these days it's all a big beauty contest with these phones. Don't get me wrong I love the look of my Epic but I feel as though that's one of the main reason's Nokia didn't succeed here. I hear it's doing phenomenal overseas though, cheap as hell and as sturdy as a rock.

Speaking of my old Nokia...lol I won't go there
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Accessories] dabezt1:
Hello,

I bought a used 10.1 tab without the original cable so ive been looking for a replacement locally. I bought a Tmobile branded samsung 30pin table cable which i assumed is for the original galaxy tab, and it will slowly charge the tab but any computer doesnt not recognize it.

I installed the USB drivers on all the computers i tried.

The tab recognizes when its pluged in, and says its CONNECTED (press home kie to disconnect from KIES) both when it pluged into computer and wall adapter. But It will not show up with windows 7. And odin wont recognize it even in downler wode.

Is this an issue with the cable or tablet? Anyone know where i can find a cable that will do DATA localy?
[HTC EVO 3D] pimp100500:
how to theme apps guide or how to
[HTC EVO 3D] Pr0Ducer:
that would be nice
[HTC EVO 3D] -viperboy-:
Do a search, plenty of tutorials on the site. Just as a quick helpful thing, use xdaAutoTool I think it's called and decompile the app you want to mod. Then, find where it decompiled it, and most of the icons and things will be in /res/drawable or /res/drawable-hdpi. Some of the colors are also in the /values folder in .xml files.
[HTC EVO 3D] platinumandroid:
Here is a Tutorial I wrote up for another member.

http://www.multiupload.com/6RU7F5PG6G
[HTC EVO 3D] pimp100500:
Not sure where the thanks buttons at on thus app but thanks
[HTC EVO 3D] platinumandroid:
It's not necessary but just hit the menu touch button on your phone and there is an option to view in browser and it can be done there.
[HTC EVO 3D] platinumandroid:
In that tutorial it assumes that you have installed Android sdk,Java,and apktool,have them in your path and installed the framework files correctly to apktool
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gothstone:
So I was trying to follow the directions here: http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1127249

But I did NOT have a KF1 Rom. Now I'm stuck in a fugu fish reboot loop. I have tried VOLup and Down + power, I have tried VOL Up+power, I even made a 301k resister jig, all to no avail.

Does anyone have any more suggestions on getting my phone up and running again?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmtheiss:
Try these:

1. From power off Vol + / Vol -, then insert USB

2. Hold Vol - + Power

3. Hold Vol + / Vol - / Home sotftkey

(Btw - link is This.)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gothstone:
Power+VOL- with no USB worked! Thank you so much!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmtheiss:
Glad to hear it worked for you. Just for reference, that's the new download mode key combo for Gingerbread. Recovery is Vol + / Power.
[Galaxy S II General] Master Melab:
Are we going to see a variant of the Samsung Galaxy S II with a slide out QWERTY keyboard that will still have the same three buttons beneath the screen? I like the layout that has only three buttons.
[Galaxy S II General] Steffe2:
SGH-I927 might be what you're looking for, it got 4 buttons though (re-added the search button).
[Galaxy S II General] Master Melab:
I want one that has the 3 button style. I like having a middle button function as the home button.
[Galaxy S II General] bruflot:
Samsung will release a model with qwerty keyboard soon. (Rumor/leaked pics)
[T-Mobile LG G2x] thegoochking:
I just got a message from tmobile saying ive used my allowed 5 gigs of data and my speed will be reduced for the remainder of the month. Is this the data throttling that ive read about and can i stop it on eagles blood gingerbread roms or only with my phone in stock.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] TJBunch1228:
Yes this is the data throttling. And you are unable to stop it on any ROM. There are a dozen supposed fixes, but none of them works for everyone so I don't buy that they aren't just anomalies.

Sent from my LG G2x
[T-Mobile LG G2x] thegoochking:
Damit I thought I was paying for unlimited data and now I have a 5 gig cap. That's total bullcrap I've never gotten that message untill now and I know I've been using waaaay over 5 gigs of data monthly. I download crap all day stream Pandora and watch lots of Netflix.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] fcisco13:
It is unlimited, they did not stop your data they just slowed it down to dial up which makes it unusable and total crap, but hey you can still use it so it is unlimited. They told me it would slow down to 2g since we use 4g but they LIED...
[Motorola Photon 4G] ericizzy1:
i have the photon , but i really dont like the screen quality (sharpness and color wise)compared to my old epic. not trying to troll here, just to ask if anyone think it can be fixed with a software update or is it a hardware issue?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Rudementry:
The general consensus is that's just how the phone is. However some lucky people don't seem to notice screens quality (or lack thereof).
[Motorola Photon 4G] irev210:
Welcome to the PenTile display.

Just the way it is. For best results, try to hold the phone far away.

I think it's actually a pretty cool technology.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ericizzy1:
can you please share with me whats so cool about this technology? thanks
[Motorola Photon 4G] Orbiting234:
Coming from the Epic, who's Super AMOLED screen also uses a pentile subpixel arrangement also mind you, you shouldn't really be noticing a sharpness difference between them. But yes, any and literally all LCDs do look duller and more muted than the Super AMOLED. It's just a nature of the technology.
[Motorola Photon 4G] wilforknowledge:
Well, I can say that, due to it's white subpixels, it is a brighter display that is much more viewable in sunlight. It is also much better on toast.

Wilty
[Motorola Photon 4G] whatsitsnamenow:
I watch videos all the time on my phone and I don't like it. It is too grainy, the color is off, too much sharpness, black is too dark and any hint of light in the scene and its too bright. HD quality videos look pretty good but lower resolution videos just look bad.

I see the problem in dark scenes where there is very little light you can't differentiate any objects in the dark area. Its all a blur. In the same scene the face has little light on it but it will be over satuated. Its like someone is shining a flashlight in his face. If any of you watch Showtime's Dexter you will see what I mean as the show has a lot of scenes in dark warehouses.

Yes I think they can make it better with software. They can turn down the sharpness. They can allow a little light to be on during dark scene rather then let it be all black (total absence of light). They can try different color temperature because right now all the human skin looks too red to me. They can dial down the intensity of white on lighted scenes.

:confused::o:mad:
[Motorola Photon 4G] Fyahstarter:
Just got home with my Photon, which I bought primarily because it's a world phone and specs looked pretty good. Gotta agree with OP, the display is piss poor. Just might return it for something else. Kinda mad I turned in my EVO. Overall I played $99. We'll see...sigh.
[Motorola Photon 4G] whatsitsnamenow:
First thing you need to do is turn the brightness all the way down and turn off the auto brightness too. The screen will look much better.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Beknatok:
Jump over here and do some reading:

http://pentileblog.com/

One thing that is kind of cool, is that the CEO actually replied to (and blogged about) an AndroidForums thread discussing the P4G screen. Spend some time reading that thread for even greater detail about the merits of the Pentile screen.

Granted, it's the CEO of Pentile, so obviously they have a bit of a bias... but she also offers fascinating technical insight behind the technology as well.
[Motorola Photon 4G] codee:
I'm very happy with the screen myself, very easy to read in sunlight especially but very bright in general (which i like). The colors were "different" compared to the evo and evo 3d I had prior but after a few hours, I started noticing more color and details in apps that I hadn't ever seen before. I feel it looks much better overall vs the evo and evo 3d. Yes, I do see the checkerboard when the display is off if I look at the right angle but I dont notice it when the screen is on.

This phone has so many pluses, and the screen is one of them to me.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Fyahstarter:
You are seriously making me think that something is wrong with my phone, man. Cuz if what I'm seeing on mine is consistent throughout, there's no way a person can think it looks good. Some of the pictures look like they are in 8-bit. I'm really disappointed.
[Motorola Photon 4G] codee:
Yeah, i'd maybe compare it to the store display if possible because I think mine looks excellent, and the display in my local stores looks really good too. I usually keep my display cranked up pretty high, and it has much better blacks and white levels then i ever had on my evo or evo 3d.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Fyahstarter:
I played some Netflix movies and they looked really bad to a point where I'm like Motorola couldn't have released a multi-media phone with such piss poor video and picture quality. I'm taking back the phone tomorrow to switch it out.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Fyahstarter:
Here's another question. I put in my sdcard from my EVO and none of the pictures fill the screen. I noticed the same thing on the carousel view in the FB integration. The pictures don't fill the screen. Any ideas?
[Motorola Photon 4G] Beknatok:
How does it look if you use a different Gallery app like QuickPic?
[Motorola Photon 4G] coldblooded79:
I, for one like the screen. There is no "burn in" like the galaxy s phones and the Nexus S. I can see the pixel separation, but it doesn't bother me a bit. Maybe you guys need to quit making out with your screens.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Fyahstarter:
I'm not looking for fantastic. I'm coming from the EVO which, even though washed out compared to a Super Amoled, looked fine to me. The problem appears that in areas of high contrast or in shadows, the blacks are too black so picture actually looks blotchy. Believe me when I tell you I'm not the overly picky type. But image quality is definitely a step down compared to my Evo.
[Motorola Photon 4G] beartrap:
Nice explanation of PenTile. I also have no issues with the display and think it is quite good in comparison to my E4G. I wonder if the different perceptions are due to astigmatism. Last year I got lens implants that corrected most of my astigmatism (some remaining, but not much). Maybe people with a lot of uncorrected astigmatism are more sensitive to the display? Maybe it's the opposite and astigmatism makes the effect harder to see and I have just enough astigmatism left to make it not noticeable?
[Motorola Photon 4G] manekineko:
I thought the display was fine, and while I could see the screen door effect, only really noticed it while looking for it.

Then I installed a game where blue was a predominant color used in the background, Wisp Lite, currently featured on the Android Market. Anyone would immediately notice the screen door effect on the background, it was so obvious.

Mulling if this matters enough for me to consider returning it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Beknatok:
Question - what is your screen's brightness set at? I've read in other places that either upping or reducing your brightness will help to mitigate the screendoor effect. Mind giving that a shot and sharing your feedback?
[Motorola Photon 4G] mediawiz:
Higher res means that you notice flaws...

OK... I'm a video guy (about 25 years in video, and most of that in video technology). I have seen many kinds of displays over the years, and heard lots of odd remarks from people who used them.

First, when HD TVs first came out, I heard a lot of people claiming that they looked worse than their old SD TV. That was becasue they were looking at an SD signal on an HD TV, and the enhanced resolution of the HD TV meant that they could now see all the flaws (blocky pixels and picture noise) in the SD signal. I also heard some people say that Plasma TVs looked better than LED or LCD TVs. That only seemed true if you were looking at an image (signal) with a lot of color noise in it, becasue the Plasma screens can not display as many colors (as LCD or LED), so you would not be able to see small bits of color noise within the image.

The display on the Photon is A) much higher resolution than most other phone displays. That means that if you are looking at a relatively low res background image, or you have an app running on your phone that has fairly low res graphics, you will see all the flaws in the image. Also B) the Pentile display supports a greater contrast ratio than most other phone displays, so you will notice subtle changes in color (like an image being a bit pale in some areas) on that display, as opposed to other display types.

What all this means is that if you switch to a phone (or TV or whatever) that has a higher res, you need to get new background images, and look for apps that support the new resolution.
[Motorola Photon 4G] codee:
That is a very good way to explain it to people, thank you!
[Motorola Photon 4G] manekineko:
If this were the explanation for the problem, you'd expect you'd hear this complaint from all users of qHD screens, like say the Evo3D. Instead, this is largely confined to PenTile displays.
[Motorola Photon 4G] manekineko:
You're right, I tried and the screendoor effect is much, much less noticeable on low brightness.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Djspinister:
Don't really understand what you guys are talking about, I think the screen looks fantastic. Ya'll some picky mf'rs, lol. If you want a super nice screen go buy a mitsubishi/sony plasma or something. If you're using this as your tv or main video game system then I think something is wrong with you.

I think this screen looks way better than the Evo/Evo3d (which I owned for 2 months, and Evo for over a year) and so does everyone I have showed it too. Not sure what you guys are on about, I read the Pentile display threads and blogs and I think it is a very cool technology. But those that don't know, just don't know.

Like one of the previous posters, this display is a lot better than most other phones, we just don't have the software/games or the like to put it to a challenge.

Give it a bit, I bet you change your mind.

-DJ
[Motorola Photon 4G] Djspinister:
No...................
[Motorola Photon 4G] scoobdude:
First off with the plasma's not showing as many colors, do you have a link to that? From all the info I have they are the truest to the RGB standard as LCDs cannot reproduce green correctly. Love to hear your input on that thanks. PM me if you want to keep this thread clean and I am seriously just looking for more information.

Back on topic. What the OP sounds like he is decribing is "Black Crush" which can be fixed via software. Here is a link that shows some pics. Sorry i can't find more talking about the specific term black crush. But one thing i can say is it usually happens now with HD broadcast, blu rays and HD video games since now they are using all 256 steps of grey instead chopping off the top and bottom steps and putting them as 1 (only giving you 230 steps if i recall of grey)

Pics: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/the-westinghouse-lvm,review-830-2.html

Also please list the source of the images you are seeing do this. Netflix can look like crap, bump it up to 4G and its much better as it increases the resolution and ups the color spectrum information.
[Motorola Photon 4G] whatsitsnamenow:
This is exactly the problem I see on the screen. I can't make out anything in black. It is just too dark. Its great to know that it can be fixed via a software. But how do we get Motorola to acknowledge that it is a problem so that will actually fix it?
[Motorola Photon 4G] sb283:
The following pictures are NOT animated, but they look like they are. I wonder if you guys who do no complain about the screen can see that effect. To me, the Photon screen looks the same. The pixels are "dancing". When I make an effort, I can see that they are not moving in one spot of the screen I am looking at, but they start dancing in another spot...
[Motorola Photon 4G] ZiggSVO:
What do you mean dancing? The first image when viewed on my epic shows some of it movng...but isn't that the point? These are optical illusions are the not?
[Motorola Photon 4G] diomark:
I like the screen..

not as sharp as the evo 3d that I was playing with.. (but then again, I returned that phone as the battery drained way too fast (and usually with "DISPLAY" as the culprit) while screen was on..

Better (in my opinion) then the evo 4g screen..

Not as good as amoled screens, but then again, I can actually see it outside.

-mark
[Motorola Photon 4G] panamakid:
no complaints here, colors are a bit different, but really? can you really tell the difference?

I dont think they wouldve released the phone if red looked pink.

maybe i'm blind, but I do seem to see the sharper screen and great brightness
[Motorola Photon 4G] sb283:
Yes, these pictures are optical illusions. I mean that I can see see similar effect on the Photon's screen displaying anything, not these pictures :)

I can see pixels, and these pixels are moving (when they are not). Different people have complained on that on multiple forums, including this one. Some people are lucky because they do not see that.

I do not see this effect on both Evo 4g and Evo 3D screens (and I have never seen it on any other phone either). Quite disappointing, I was going to buy this phone.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Djspinister:
If you dont like the screen, go back to Sprint and get a different phone. End discussion.
[Motorola Photon 4G] scoobdude:
First we need to find out what the content is. Let us know what the source material is so more people can test it and see if the results are similar. If its a movie file, have you tried using a different player such as rock or mobo?
[Motorola Photon 4G] sjjones:
theres nothing wrong with screen may be as somebody else said, people being extremely picky, coming from evo 4g and 3d, theres no noticable difference
[Motorola Photon 4G] Alex210:
I think the screen looks great, but color is kind of dull when I hold it next to my Evo 4G.

Anyone want to try out this wallpaper and tell me how it looks? I wanted to use it for my lockscreen, but on my photon the background is black. Other colors seem fine so I was wondering if it was just my phone.
[Motorola Photon 4G] A2CKilla:
the display on mine is amazing!!! compared to my OG evo, and epics i've used in the past, i really love the photon screen, everything is so much sharper and more "richer"
[Motorola Photon 4G] whatsitsnamenow:
Its the Star Trek Tv series. I have tried rockplayer, moboplayer, vital player, and the default player with no noticeable difference. Here is a link to a few snapshot I took of the video. http://s175.photobucket.com/albums/w159/fithos_bucket/Photon%20vs%20Evo/

The first 9 shots are from the Photon. The next 6 from the Evo 4G. The last pic show them side by side with their brightness turn all the way down. Believe it or not that is the lowest brightness on the Photon (right). Notice the brightness of the faces. Also note how dark the shirt is on the female. On the Photon is looks like the black is actually bleeding.

These next set of photos are from an episode of Law and Order. The first 2 pics are from the Photon and the last 2 are from the Evo 4G. http://s175.photobucket.com/albums/w159/fithos_bucket/Photon%20vs%20Evo%2002/
[Motorola Photon 4G] jzmjr:
I don't know but the screen really is noticeable. Motorola should have not used pentile. The really kills the phone in my eyes.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Beknatok:
To all those experiencing issues with the PenTile display, what is your display brightness set to?

While toying with a display model, the screendoor effect was extremely obvious to me. The brightness setting was 100%. I changed it to auto-adjust and that reduced the screendoor effect greatly. At that point, it was barely noticeable and only if I really searched for it.

Making that change made the Pentile display usable for me. To those seeing similar issues, try that out and report back if it does or does not work for you.
[Motorola Photon 4G] kawaski47:
I liked some aspects of the screen and didn't mind the pixels to much, but it started to give me headaches. Never had a screen that made my eyes and head hurt. (and i can tolerate 3d, watched the whole green Hornet with no issues). Rocking my evo till I figure out what I want to do.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Cubfan99:
Headaches? Come on.